Investigating Future Mobility Scenarios with Autonomous Vehicles

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Future mobility is an area which requires exploration for both academic and business purposes. Technological developments such as electrified vehicles (EV), sharing services and autonomous vehicles (AV) have started taking their places in the transportation industry. AVs’ presence on the roads is expected in near future. There are predictions on how and when AVs are going to be eligible and uncertainties about how AVs will change people’s transportation habits and lifestyles. This thesis investigates future mobility and transportation design through the existence of AVs. Hence, the study aims to further investigate this issue using design fiction methodology by creating fictional storyworlds. For this purpose, two design fiction workshops were organized with designers to speculate on a fictional world and then, build design scenarios on this world where AVs would become a part of daily life. The study also provides insights on design fiction methodology by pointing out how designers speculate on the features of AVs within future storyworlds. As a result, the narratives and scenarios created by designers were analyzed and characteristics of the scenarios were identified considering the social and contextual aspects of the storyworlds. Moreover, there were design considerations for AVs stated by participants. Along with that, the workshop format was discussed with regards to how participants responded to the workshop activities and subsequently, the strategies they adopted were extracted.

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design fiction, future mobility, transportation design, design futures, autonomous vehicles

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A. T. Çelik, “Investigating Future Mobility Scenarios with Autonomous Vehicles,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.